* jdd
patterns should be more refined. There is a lot of things completely unusefull in the Base packages (for some uses); So we should have
* a very minimal set. may be only static kernel, skel. only text console access, neither yast - ideally floppy boot :-)
and then a Yast pattern, a X pattern, a sax pattern (may be a SUSE pattern with yast and sax :-)
Yes, thats exactly the direction we want to go with patterns.
on this respect, it would be very interesting to have an utility (boot floppy or cd, like memtest) that do a hardware check and report; The same thing that is done at install time, but without the installer, just check. May be say "your computer is ready for Linux", or "this part can be a problem".
We tried something like that before but never really found time to complete it. It should upload the output of hwinfo to some webserver which compares detected hardware devices against entries in a database. It could then report the 'support status'. A bootable CD which writes its findings to USB stick (or even a bootable USB image if the BIOS supports it) could be pretty nice. Klaus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory-help@opensuse.org